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(noun) a picture or design printed from an engraving
(noun) a fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers)
(noun) a copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it)
(noun) availability in printed form; “we’ve got to get that story into print”; “his book is no longer in print”
(noun) the text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication; “I want to see it in print”
mark, print
(noun) a visible indication made on a surface; “some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks”; “paw prints were everywhere”
print, publish
(verb) put into print; “The newspaper published the news of the royal couple’s divorce”; “These news should not be printed”
(verb) write as if with print; not cursive
print, impress
(verb) reproduce by printing
(verb) make into a print; “print the negative”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
print (not comparable)
Of, relating to, or writing for printed publications.
Verb
print (third-person singular simple present prints, present participle printing, simple past and past participle printed)
(transitive) To produce one or more copies of a text or image on a surface, especially by machine; often used with out or off: print out, print off.
To produce a microchip (an integrated circuit) in a process resembling the printing of an image.
(ambitransitive) To write very clearly, especially, to write without connecting the letters as in cursive.
(ambitransitive) To publish in a book, newspaper, etc.
(transitive) To stamp or impress (something) with coloured figures or patterns.
(transitive) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc, into or upon something.
(transitive) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure.
(computing, transitive) To display a string on the terminal.
(finance, ambitransitive) To produce an observable value.
Noun
print (countable and uncountable, plural prints)
(uncountable) Books and other material created by printing presses, considered collectively or as a medium.
(uncountable) Clear handwriting, especially, writing without connected letters as in cursive.
(uncountable) The letters forming the text of a document.
(countable) A newspaper.
A visible impression on a surface.
A fingerprint.
A footprint.
(visual art) A picture that was created in multiple copies by printing.
(photography) A photograph that has been printed onto paper from the negative.
(film) A copy of a film that can be projected.
Cloth that has had a pattern of dye printed onto it.
(architecture) A plaster cast in bas relief.
Antonyms
• (writing without connected letters): cursive
Source: Wiktionary
Print, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Printed; p. pr. & vb. n. Printing.] Etym: [Abbrev. fr. imprint. See Imprint, and Press to squeeze.]
1. To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something. A look will print a thought that never may remove. Surrey. Upon his breastplate he beholds a dint, Which in that field young Edward's sword did print. Sir John Beaumont. Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay. Roscommon.
2. To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure, or as by pressure. Forth on his fiery steed betimes he rode, That scarcely prints the turf on which he trod. Dryden.
3. Specifically:
Definition: To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type, or from stereotype, electrotype, or engraved plates, or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.
4. To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.
5. (Photog.)
Definition: To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing, or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface. Printed goods, textile fabrics printed in patterns, especially cotton cloths, or calicoes.
Print, v. i.
1. To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures, or electrotypes, engraved plates, or the like.
2. To publish a book or an article. From the moment he prints, he must except to hear no more truth. Pope.
Print, n. Etym: [See Print, v., Imprint, n.]
1. A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure, or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow. Where print of human feet was never seen. Dryden.
2. A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.
3. That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
4. Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.
5. That which is produced by printing. Specifically: (a) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate. "The prints which we see of antiquities." Dryden. (b) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical. Addison. (c) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth. (d) A photographic copy, or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative, or from a drawing on transparent paper.
6. (Founding)
Definition: A core print. See under Core. Blue print, a copy in white lines on a blue ground, of a drawing, plan, tracing, etc., or a positive picture in blue and white, from a negative, produced by photographic printing on peculiarly prepared paper.blueprint for action -- In print. (a) In a printed form; issued from the press; published. Shak. (b) To the letter; with accurateness. "All this I speak in print." Shak.
– Out of print. See under Out.
– Print works, a factory where cloth, as calico, is printed.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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